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Not sure if we discussed the arcade fire youtube simulcast thing in daily before? Terry Gilliam's involvement is kind of cool.

"One key advantage of using a vintage and nostalgic game is to indirectly remind consumers that Kibbles 'n Bits products, owned by Del Monte Foods, have been around for about 30 years. "It reinforces the perception that the products are familiar and well-established," said Zac Maricondia, Draftfcb copywriter. Arcade-style 8-bit games have proven to be surprisingly popular in this era of high-tech video graphics. (Originally 8-bit referred to the data capability of the processors used in video game consoles. Now it refers to the style of graphics and music produced by those early processors.)"

real-time frogger syncs up with the traffic on 5th ave in NY.

Robots. Mind control. Mobile games. Social films. Been there, done that. That is, if you're B-Reel. Last year, Ad Age's sibling publication, Creativity, named the Stockholm-headquartered outfit its Digital Production Company of the Year. It was an easy call, based on groundbreaking projects including the Cannes Cyber Grand Prix-winning "Wilderness Downtown" for Arcade Fire (directed and conceived by Radical Media's Chris Milk and Google's Aaron Koblin) and the much-buzzed-about LiveDrive for Mitsubishi, from 180, Los Angeles. Yet B-Reel's output during the past 12 months has proved even more impressive. A small sampling of the work includes a "Minority Report"-style retail interface for telecom provider 3Sweden; a Rube Goldberg-inspired browser puzzle for Honda and Wieden & Kennedy, London; a social-media-created film for Intel/Toshiba via Pereira & O'Dell; and yes, some really great commercials.

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hmtl5 execution where you enter in your childhood address for a memory lane nostalgia experience. chrome browser only daily 8.31

watch this! its really cool. like the arcade fire thing but not using html5- uses flash, xml, php and javascript "browser bending" where you cant embed but it uses the entire browser, something like this could be a 2011 prediction also daily 11.4

The app, built by Radical Media (the folks behind Arcade Fire's "The Wilderness Downtown" project), allows users to watch videos and read articles from ONE's website, and then take actions based on those articles. Is ONE having a campaign to get the U.S. government to forgive developing world debt? You'll be able to pull up all the relevant facts to convince people how important the issue is, sign a petition at the click of a button (and get your friends to sign, too), or be directed to who to call to formally lodge your opinion. The app even gives you a script, and a place to record how the call went. Now ONE will know more precisely how much its users are pushing policy-makers. And when it's time to protest, a ONE organizer can send you a push notification telling you to get out on the street and make your voice heard.

If you love ironic fashion, fixies, and kerning, then you're going to love Vetica, a new iPhone/iPod Touch game. Combining a love for retro arcade gaming with general font geekery,